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Postby alex2035 on Mon May 05, 2008 3:04 pm

Hello, first I have to thank developers for this distro, it works great on my thinkpad 600E, I have tried lots of distros to revive this box but Anti fits it perfectly, I made sound work in about 5 minutes (it is the most problematic) and everything works...and very fast :)
Only problem I have is with the USB SD card reader, it would not mount whatever I did that I could found in the two threads I have seen here. It is clear that it exists, usbview shows it, and it appears as sdb1 but it would not mount. Fstab says that pluggable devices are handled by uDev and it is not there, but the udev service is not up, I have enabled it but nothing. Have tried the "mount all filesystems" service as well. when I try to mount /dev/sdb1 it says wrong fs, bad option, etc. and it spits an error: could not delete mount point (?)
Any ideas please? thank you
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Postby anticapitalista on Mon May 05, 2008 10:01 pm

Have you tried mountpy in Settings-->Config-System ?

You could also add this line to your /etc/fstab above the dynamic section.

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0

Make sure you have created a mount point in /mnt called sdb1
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Postby alex2035 on Tue May 06, 2008 1:25 am

Thanx for the answer, I have added a line to fstab but it was one taken from Mepis Wiki, it is not like this one. I will try yours.

I dont have a mountpy option in Settings--Config-System so I think this is another version of the OS.
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Postby alex2035 on Tue May 06, 2008 10:47 pm

Anticapitalista, I have tried your suggestion, didnt work. I found that the 600E supports USB 1 and the reader is USB 2.0 this I find out from booting to XP on the same box, it says it is newer USB but it will work at less speed because of this. Perhaps this is the AntiX problem?
I really would not bother too much about this and probably you are busy with new AntiX stable release to help now, perhaps even new version makes this work and after all I can manage to copy files with a rewritible CD so not much of a problem.
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Postby anticapitalista on Tue May 06, 2008 10:54 pm

Try installing mountpy (in synaptic) and then plug in the usb device
open a terminal
su
rootpassword
mountpy

and see if it turns up in /media/ through files (rox-filer).

You may need to reboot, plugin the usb device at reboot, and do the above.
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Postby alex2035 on Tue May 06, 2008 11:54 pm

That was fast! Thank you, give it a try then.
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Postby alex2035 on Wed May 07, 2008 9:57 pm

No go, nothing I do brings the thing up. It says cant mount:bad superblock (this the mount option) and mountpy scans and shows very fast message that it is trying to mount /dev/sdb auto and /dev/sdb1 auto and disappears with the message: found nothing to mount.
I am inclined to think this particular reader is not compatible with Anti in some way, in my other box (OZ OS) it mounts OK over Thunar.
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Postby eriefisher on Wed May 07, 2008 11:18 pm

Does it show up with "fdisk -l" as root?

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Postby alex2035 on Thu May 08, 2008 9:50 pm

no, only HD sda with partitions shown.
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Postby anticapitalista on Thu May 08, 2008 10:00 pm

Can you try another usb device and see if that is detected.
There may be a problem with the usb port.
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Postby alex2035 on Fri May 09, 2008 3:50 am

No, USB is OK, sync my Palm TX to it, with usb: setting without any problem. :?
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